What is passive voice, how do I recognize it, and how do

>>9764025
The passive voice is being used by me. I'm using the active voice.

>>9764025

basically passive voice is when u take ur object and u make it the subject of the sentence

the vase was broken by charles
charles broke the vase

here u can see how passive voice can be used as a rhetorical device - in the first example, attention is centered on the tragedy of the broken vase rather than charles' agency and incompetence, as in the second example.

>>9764033
If you can add "by zombies" after the verb and the sentence still makes sense, the passive voice was used (by zombies).

>>9764025
>how do I stop using it
Ignore the memes, it has its uses.

>>9764025
The technical definition is a sentence construction where the subject is placed in the predicate of a transitive verb (any verb which takes an object). Like others have said, the test to see if a sentence is passive is to place "by zombies/him/etc" as that is the real subject of the sentence or by recognizing the use of the passive "to be" (am/are/is/was) followed by a verb ending in -ed in a sentence. Passive construction can drop the subject entirely and is discouraged because it is ambiguous, less forceful, and wordier than an active voice sentence.